Hope Hicks

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Hope Hicks

The former White House Communications director has been described as a "longtime Trump family friend" ever since she began working PR at Ivanka Trump's fashion brand. With no experience in politics, she joined the Trump campaign and hung on long enough to become one of the president's longest-serving staffers, at just more than one year.

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Omarosa Manigault-Newman

2/15

Omarosa Manigault-Newman

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3/15

Lynne Patton

3/15

Lynne Patton

Patton, an event planner, organized Eric Trump's wedding. Overlooking her zero experience in government or housing policy, Trump appointed Patton to head HUD's Region 2 office, serving New York and New Jersey.

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4/15

Dan Scavino

4/15

Dan Scavino

Formerly Trump's caddie, he now runs social media for the White House.

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5/15

Keith Schiller

5/15

Keith Schiller

Trump's longtime bodyguard followed his boss to the White House as director of Oval Office operations. Schiller earned a moment in infamy when he delivered James Comey's termination letter to him at a satellite FBI office. Schiller quit the White House in September 2017; in February, the Republican National Committee hired him to oversee security for the 2020 convention. He's earning $15,000 a month.

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Steve Kopec

6/15

Steve Kopec

Kopec, the husband of a former Trump household staffer, is now an EPA official. He works in the EPA's Region 2 office in New York as a special assistant. He was previously a home improvement contractor.

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7/15

Stephanie Winston Wolcott

7/15

Stephanie Winston Wolcott

Melania Trump's friend, Wolcott ran a company that got $26 million to help plan the inauguration. She stayed on as an adviser to the first lady until stepping down after the story about her eight-figure windfall broke.

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8/15

John Dunkin

8/15

John Dunkin

It's not official yet, but Trump wants to appoint his personal pilot to head the $16 billion, 47,000-person Federal Aviation Administration.

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9/15

Linda McMahon

9/15

Linda McMahon

A longtime Trump friend and owner of the World Wrestling Federation, Linda McMahon now heads the Small Business Administration.

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10/15

Boris Epshteyn

10/15

Boris Epshteyn

A college friend of Eric Trump, Epshteyn advised Donald Trump's campaign and was later put in charge of Trump's media surrogates. He wrote Trump's statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day, which included no mention of the Jewish people, and resigned shortly thereafter.

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11/15

Steve Wynn

11/15

Steve Wynn

After funding the 2016 race to the tune of $833,000, the Las Vegas hotel magnate was named a vice-chairman of Trump's inauguration committee.

12/15

Steve Mnuchin

12/15

Steve Mnuchin

The Treasury Secretary, who's charged taxpayers $1 million for his military-jet flights, has been a friend of Trump's for 15 years.

13/15

Robin Bernstein

13/15

Robin Bernstein

A friend of Trump's since the '90s and a founding member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, Bernstein (pictured far left, in 2000) has insured some of Trump's businesses. Trump named her ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

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Rudy Giuliani

14/15

Rudy Giuliani

A longtime Trump ally who has defended him vociferously on cable news, the former NYC mayor is an adviser to the president on cybersecurity.

15/15

Carl Icahn

15/15

Carl Icahn

The billionaire investor and Trump friend was named an adviser to the president on regulation. He resigned abruptly right before a "New Yorker" article was published questioning his potential conflicts of interest.

Hope Hicks

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Hope Hicks

The former White House Communications director has been described as a "longtime Trump family friend" ever since she began working PR at Ivanka Trump's fashion brand. With no experience in politics, she joined the Trump campaign and hung on long enough to become one of the president's longest-serving staffers, at just more than one year.

Photo: Getty Images

2/15

Omarosa Manigault-Newman

2/15

Omarosa Manigault-Newman

Photo: Getty Images

3/15

Lynne Patton

3/15

Lynne Patton

Patton, an event planner, organized Eric Trump's wedding. Overlooking her zero experience in government or housing policy, Trump appointed Patton to head HUD's Region 2 office, serving New York and New Jersey.

Getty Images

4/15

Dan Scavino

4/15

Dan Scavino

Formerly Trump's caddie, he now runs social media for the White House.

Getty Images

5/15

Keith Schiller

5/15

Keith Schiller

Trump's longtime bodyguard followed his boss to the White House as director of Oval Office operations. Schiller earned a moment in infamy when he delivered James Comey's termination letter to him at a satellite FBI office. Schiller quit the White House in September 2017; in February, the Republican National Committee hired him to oversee security for the 2020 convention. He's earning $15,000 a month.

6/15

Steve Kopec

6/15

Steve Kopec

Kopec, the husband of a former Trump household staffer, is now an EPA official. He works in the EPA's Region 2 office in New York as a special assistant. He was previously a home improvement contractor.

Photo: Getty Images

7/15

Stephanie Winston Wolcott

7/15

Stephanie Winston Wolcott

Melania Trump's friend, Wolcott ran a company that got $26 million to help plan the inauguration. She stayed on as an adviser to the first lady until stepping down after the story about her eight-figure windfall broke.

Photo: Getty Images

8/15

John Dunkin

8/15

John Dunkin

It's not official yet, but Trump wants to appoint his personal pilot to head the $16 billion, 47,000-person Federal Aviation Administration.

Photo: Getty Images

9/15

Linda McMahon

9/15

Linda McMahon

A longtime Trump friend and owner of the World Wrestling Federation, Linda McMahon now heads the Small Business Administration.

Photo: Getty Images

10/15

Boris Epshteyn

10/15

Boris Epshteyn

A college friend of Eric Trump, Epshteyn advised Donald Trump's campaign and was later put in charge of Trump's media surrogates. He wrote Trump's statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day, which included no mention of the Jewish people, and resigned shortly thereafter.

Photo: Getty Images

11/15

Steve Wynn

11/15

Steve Wynn

After funding the 2016 race to the tune of $833,000, the Las Vegas hotel magnate was named a vice-chairman of Trump's inauguration committee.

12/15

Steve Mnuchin

12/15

Steve Mnuchin

The Treasury Secretary, who's charged taxpayers $1 million for his military-jet flights, has been a friend of Trump's for 15 years.

13/15

Robin Bernstein

13/15

Robin Bernstein

A friend of Trump's since the '90s and a founding member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, Bernstein (pictured far left, in 2000) has insured some of Trump's businesses. Trump named her ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

Photo: Getty Images

14/15

Rudy Giuliani

14/15

Rudy Giuliani

A longtime Trump ally who has defended him vociferously on cable news, the former NYC mayor is an adviser to the president on cybersecurity.

15/15

Carl Icahn

15/15

Carl Icahn

The billionaire investor and Trump friend was named an adviser to the president on regulation. He resigned abruptly right before a "New Yorker" article was published questioning his potential conflicts of interest.

Since taking office, Trump has appointed a number of friends to government jobs. Those appointments have involved some stratospheric leaps in skill sets (from party planner to regional head of a federal agency, for example), some serious cash and — what the president reportedly prizes above all — many years of loyalty. And similar Trump appointments are on the way: Guess what government job he wants to give his private pilot?

All presidents have relied on their networks and rewarded donors with gigs in and connected to the administration. But although some of Trump's appointments are quirky but sensible — longtime friend Linda McMahon was the CEO of the World Wrestling Federation, but she did build a small business, theoretically qualifying her for the Small Business Administration — some of his gigs have gone to candidates with no discernible relevant experience. Lynne Patton was Eric Trump's wedding planner; Trump named her to a management role at the agency for Housing and Urban Development. Family connections have given some an entry point: Kyle Yunaska, Eric Trump's brother-in-law, is now a chief of staff at the Department of Energy, despite having no experience in energy.

Appointments like those have driven critics to scoff at Trump's promise during the campaign that he would hire "the best people." Combine that with the constant charges of nepotism that surround daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner's advisory roles, and some question whether Trump has the personnel skills crucial for a president.

Some might consider the fact that he's hiring anyone a bright spot. In late January, the Washington Post that more than hundreds of crucial government jobs sit empty. Glaringly, there was no ambassador to South Korea during the Winter Olympics, hosted in that country, and Trump's surprise agreement to a sit-down with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un that immediately followed. Overall, the Post found that 221 of 385 key Cabinet-appointed positions have not been filled.

Click through the slides above to see all of Trump's friends who have been appointed to office with details about their new title and prior qualifications (or lack thereof)